Lesson date: 11/26/5857AA

What is the big mystery of marriage, divorce and remarriage? It is beautiful, let me show you: Rom 7:1 Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?((What a minute: Torah rules over us our whole life?))

Do you know Torah? If you don’t you will have no idea what the Apostle Sha’ul is talking about. He tell you that right here. I know, you’re thinking, “But Torah was done away with. That is what this very section of Romans is talking about, right?” No! This is talking about the “Mystery” of marriage, divorce and remarriage not about being divorced from Torah. Let’s look at the steps in this equation:

1. “When a man takes a wife and marries her”;
2. “if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her”,
3. “he shall write her a certificate of divorce and put it in her hand,”
4. “send her out of his house,”
5. “and if she left his house and went”
6. “became another man’s wife,”
7. “when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

Deu 24:4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an abomination before יהוה.”

He was going to give her a writ (certificate) of divorce so that she would not be killed are brought before the high priest: Num 5:18 And the priest shall make the woman stand before יהוה, and shall uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, while the priest holds in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.

Num 5:19 And the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband’s authority, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

Num 5:20 “But if you have turned aside under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you” –

Uncoveredness = adultery: Mat 5:31 “And it has been said, ‘Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Mat 5:32 “But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.

Mat 19:9 “And I say to you, whoever puts away his wife, except on the ground of whoring, and marries another, commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been put away commits adultery.”

Look at the Greek word for “whoring”: G4202 – πορνεία – porneia – por-ni’-ah From G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively idolatry: – fornication.

Exo 20:14 “You do not commit adultery.

H5003 – נאף – nâ’aph – BDB Definition: 1) to commit adultery 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to commit adultery 1a1a) usually of man 1a1a1) always with wife of another  1a1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1a2) idolatrous worship (figuratively) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to commit adultery 1b1a) of man 1b1b) adultery (of women) (participle) 1b2) idolatrous worship (figuratively)

Isa 50:1 Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

((Please look at this Scripture carefully: Israel is the mother and Judah is the daughter. This is a warning to Judah to quit following other gods, not the other way around. This is a female role. Notice too, that Yehudah has been sold into slavery, not just divorced.))

Jer 3:8 “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ěl had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yehuḏah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too. ((Here Judah is called Israel’s sister. Once again this is a female role.))

Isa_47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

But suppose the man really loves his ex-wife and realizes that because he loves her so much that he would be willing to die for her so that she might be free of this curse. What then? How would that accomplish anything? If the wife committed adultery, shouldn’t she be stoned, publicly, outside the city gate? Mat 1:18 But the birth of יהושע Messiah was as follows: After His mother Miryam was engaged to Yosěph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant from the Set-apart Spirit.

Mat 1:19 And Yosěph her husband, being righteous, and not wishing to make a show of her, had in mind to put her away secretly.

If it were possible for a man to die for his wife, he would have to remain dead for at least three days otherwise Jews would say he had not really died. So, how could a man die for his wife so that he could take as his wife, for the first time again after he first husband died? That would be impossible, right?

Rom 7:1 Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?

Rom 7:2 For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.

Rom 7:3 So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

Rom 7:4 So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

Now, here is the conundrum according to Torah: YHVH loves Israel (Deut. 32:10) but Israel was unfaithful and served other gods so, YHVH had to divorce the unfaithful Bride (Israel) (Isaiah 50:1; Jeremiah 3:8) but YHVH still loves Israel so He Himself must pay the price of the sin committed by the unfaithful wife. What would that death look like to the casual observer?

The Wife (Israel) Who Commits Adultery:

1. Write curses in a book: Number 5:23 (Exodus 32:19-20)
2. Must drink bitter water: Numbers 5:24 (Exodus 32:19-20)
3. Slain with a sword (blade): Ezekiel 16:38-40; 23:47; (Exodus 32:26-28)
4. Forsaken by husband: Deuteronomy 31:16-17
5. Husband hides his face from wife: Deu. 31:18; Isa. 8:17; 54:8
6. Stripped naked: Hosea 2:2-3; Ezekiel 23:22,26
7. Slain with thirst: Hosea 2:2-3
8. Laughed to scorn: Ezekiel 23:32
9. Mocked: 2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 37:22
10. Cast lots: Joel 3:3; Obadiah 1:11

Yeshua Taking On the Sin of the Unfaithful Wife:

1. Blotting out curses: Col. 2:14; Gal.3:13
2. Drink the bitter cup: Matt. 26:42; 27:48
3. Pierced with a blade (spear) John 19:34
4. Forsaken: Matt. 27:46
5. Hid His Face: Matt. 27:45 (Darkness representing YHVH turning His Face) Ps. 44:24; 69:17; 132:10
6. Stripped naked: Matt. 27:28
7. Thirst: John 19:28
8. Laughed to scorn: Matt. 9:24; Mark 5:40; Luke 8:53
9. Mocked: Matt. 27:31; Luke 23:36
10. Cast lots: Matt. 27:35; Luke 23:34: John 19:24

There is one final thing that must happen; what is it? Here is a hint: Isa 52:13 See, My Servant shall work wisely, He shall be exalted and lifted up and very high.

Isa 52:14 As many were astonished at You – so the disfigurement beyond any man’s and His form beyond the sons of men –

Verse 5 – A man is exempt for 1 year from military service.

Verse 6 – Cannot take a millstone in a pledge because it could cause death!

Verse 7 – A kidnapper dies.

Verses 8-9 – Obey the priests about leprosy.

Verses 10-13 – Do not enter a man’s home to take a pledge. Let him bring it to you. If a man pledges his coat, and he is poor and the weather is cold, return to the pledge to him for the night. In other words, do not oppress your brethren.

Verses 14-15 – This is very serious to me and I will relate an instance that caused me a great deal of concern. I hired a man and his helper to work for me in New Mexico. He completed the job to my satisfaction and we prearranged where we would me for me to pay him after getting the money from the bank. On the way to pay him a blizzard hit and kept us snowed in for a week. Once we could get out, immediately after being able to get out, my wife and I met the man and paid him the agreed wage plus 10% interest on the original amount owed. He agreed to settle for that amount and was very happy. It grieved me to not be able to pay the man that whole week. It still bothers me and that is why I share it.

Verse 16 – Each dies for their own sin.

Verses 17-22 – Do not oppress the widow, orphans or strangers because you were strangers in another land, Mitsrayim, where you served other gods. ((Psalms 82))